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Five Years’ Experience With a Medical Scribe Fellowship: Shaping Future Health Professions Students While Addressing Provider Burnout
- Source :
- Academic Medicine. 96:671-679
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021.
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Abstract
- Professional burnout has reached epidemic levels among U.S. medical providers. One key driver is the burden of clinical documentation in the electronic health record, which has given rise to medical scribes. Despite the demonstrated benefits of scribes, many providers-especially those in academic health systems-have been unable to make an economic case for them. With the aim of creating a cost-effective scribe program in which premedical students gain skills that better position them for professional schooling, while providers at risk of burnout obtain documentation support, the authors launched the Clinical Observation and Medical Transcription (COMET) Program in June 2015 at Stanford University School of Medicine. COMET is a new type of postbaccalaureate premedical program that combines an apprenticeship-like scribing experience and a package of teaching, advising, application support, and mentored scholarship that is supported by student tuition. Driven by strong demand from both participants and faculty, the program grew rapidly during its first 5 years (2015-2020). Program evaluations indicated high levels of satisfaction among participants and faculty with their mentors and mentees, respectively; that participants felt the experience better positioned them for professional schooling; and that faculty reported improved joy of practice. In summary, tuition-supported medical scribe programs, like COMET, appear to be feasible and cost-effective. The COMET model may have the potential to help shape future health professions students, while simultaneously combating provider burnout. While scalability and generalizability remain uncertain, this model may be worth exploring at other institutions.
- Subjects :
- Education, Premedical
Program evaluation
020205 medical informatics
MEDLINE
Documentation
02 engineering and technology
Burnout
California
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physicians
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Electronic Health Records
Humans
Generalizability theory
Medical scribe
030212 general & internal medicine
Fellowships and Scholarships
Burnout, Professional
Medical Record Administrators
Medical education
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
Mentoring
General Medicine
Medical transcription
Scholarship
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10402446
- Volume :
- 96
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Academic Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e81614548ccc6ff9659aecbfc02c9b57